NEXT TO YOUAT KORSVÄGEN

Together into the new world

Mixed Reality Walkby Marika Hedemyr

FREE ADMISSION - OPEN EVERY DAY 9 am - 7 pm

Where are you going? How do you relate to the person next to you?

A smartphone in your hand can open up new worlds and connections, and also create isolated bubbles and segmented societies. In Next to You at Korsvägen, Hedemyr explores this paradox through an interactive walk where your choice of direction is crucial for the course of events. The work remixes the city's visions of Göteborg as a destination with quotes from Vilhelm Moberg's novel series The Emigrants, and facts about Korsvägen. A private mixed-reality situation where the experience of the place and the passers-by is intensified.

Good headphones that cover your ears are recommended. Korsvägen is a noisy place :-)

Languages: English, Swedish.

Length: 40 min

Accessibility: The walk can be done in wheelchair. Disabled toilet facilities are to be found at the platform and at the Museum of World Culture 300 m from the platform. The app can be used on a tablet device (instead of smartphone) for larger screen.

About the app: Size: 290 MB. Runs on operating system iOS 6 or later (iPhone/iPad), or Android 4.4 or later.

Dates & Times

Open 6 September−19 Nov 2017Every day 9 am - 7 pm

Part of GIBCA Extended - Gothenburg International Biennial of Contemporary Art

With your own smartphone and headphones you can enter the work any time between 9 am - 7 pm.We recommend you do the walk in daylight and start latest 6.30 pm.

The team is on location the following dates, and can lend you equipment and/or provide free wifi for downloading the app. Meet us outside the waiting hall next to Pressbyrån:

Meet Marika Hedemyr, the artist behind Next to You at Korsvägen, in a conversation with Klas Grinell, research coordinator and intendent for the Museum of World Culture's exhibition Crossroads.The talk is part of GIBCA Extended, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art.

The team is on location 4pm - 8 pm at Korsvägen, and can lend you equipment and/or wifi for downloading the app. Meet us outside the waiting hall next to Pressbyrån.

About Marika Hedemyrand Next To You

Marika Hedemyr is a Swedish artist working across choreography and public art, exploring emotional and political relations between people and places.

Her work is known for twisting reality into precise and humorous everyday situations. It has been presented at Dansens Hus Stockholm, Röda Sten Konsthall, Bibliotheca Alexandrina Egypt, Yokohama Dance Collection Japan, among others. In 2016 Hedemyr co-edited Dansbaren—The Mob Without Flash (Dansbyrån, 2016), a publication dedicated to critical thinking within choreography and self-organisation.

Since 2017 Hedemyr is enrolled for a PhD in Interaction Design at the School of Arts and Culture (K3) at Malmö University, Sweden.

Hedemyr’s basic areas of research forming Next To You at Korsvägen are:

What can performative art in public space be, beyond the performer? She expands the concept of choreography and transmedia storytelling by exploring how choreography, direction and dramaturgy are created in the "eyes of the beholder" as an embodied experience in public situations.

What are the potentials of the space between a smartphone and its user in a public space? How can it become a place for action, ethical negotiations and new forms of expressions? How can augmented and mixed reality technologies be used for expanded forms of “storytelling”, creating situations of critical reflection?

CLAES PETTERSSON

VANESSA LABAÑINO

JÖRGEN WADE

Press

For press inquiries regarding Next to You at Korsvägen, please contact Vanessa Labanino at Possibilitas.

Mail: vanessa@possibilitas.seTel: +46-70-465 99 36

Press Pictures

Welcome to download photos for articles, program etc related to Next to You at Korsvägen. Hedemyr and the photographer's name should always be mentioned. For use in commercial or any other event you must get our permission. Ask at: vanessa@possibilitas.se